OpenAI Launches New ‘01’ Model That Outperforms ChatGPT-4o
The AI developer said it is “resetting the counter” for its product names as its latest set of models excel across its tests.
Jose Antonio Lanz
By Jose Antonio Lanz
Sep 13, 2024
4 min read
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OpenAI has introduced a new family of models and made them available Thursday on its paid ChatGPT Plus subscription tier, claiming that it provides major improvements in performance and reasoning capabilities.

“We are introducing OpenAI o1, a new large language model trained with reinforcement learning to perform complex reasoning,” OpenAI said in an official blog post, “o1 thinks before it answers.” AI industry watchers had expected the top AI developer to deploy a new “strawberry” model for weeks, although distinctions between the different models under development are not publicly disclosed.

OpenAI describes this new family of models as a big leap forward, so much so tha…